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Sunday, March 13, 2005 6:07 PM

i survived 5 days of obs! im in battuta and everyone in our watch was frm 306. we were separated into residential and mobile and im in mobile and our instructor is wee how! during the whole camp we kept making fun of him and his girlfren hazel. and im the medic for our grp so i had to bring the medic whenever we go for activities. hm for the first day we just did some normal stuff like folding tents and stuff etc then we learnt to tie knots for tent pitching. then we had lunch which was some biscuits and fruity bars and oreos and we had to eat with our hands tied up together while eating. that was pretty inconvenient but we finished our lunch anyway. then we pitched tents and went kayaking! it was quite fun and i kayaked with weilin. we practised capsizing which was quite fun too. after that we bathed and cooked maggi mee for dinner. i shared maggi mee with weilin blah blah and we went to sleep in our tents at 11. our tents were pitched on grass and i shared tents with weilin jiebin and jul. haha and jiebin and weilin kept complaining of weilin's snores bcos she was sick with flu so cnt breathe mahz. however i wasnt affected at all since i fall asleep very fast and can sleep thru almost anything plus ive been trained to be immune by my dad's snores. hees.

okiees. the second day of camp. after breakfast we packed large and heavy bags and carried them while trekking through the forest to camp 1 where the lucky residential ppl were staying. there we finally had a decent lunch and we learnt belaying after that. then we did high elements which was the inverse tower. i went up the ladder plus six poles thingy with peggy and it was sooooo scary! i usu like high elements and always succeed in completing the whole thing but this thing really freaked me out. u not only need courage but also the strength and energy to climb the poles. it seemed so impossible at first and no matter how i kicked i cldnt get my legs up the poles so in the end i stood on peggy's legs to reach the second pole. then i was so scared i clutched on to the pole for my dear life and wanted to go down but they din let me down and cheered me on and peggy kept encouraging me so i finally stood up on the pole. but unfortunately that was the furthest i went and i just cldnt reach the third pole. so in the end i went down and all bcos of me peggy went down too cos we were connected by the line if not im sure she cld hv finished it. haiz i felt so disappointed and sorry. but its alright lahz then we had dinner and washed up. we bathed in the male toilet cos there were really such long queues at the other toilets! hahas. then we had supper which was green bean soup and a far worse place to sleep tonight. we pitched tents at a leaf litter community which was full of all sorts of insects. so we sprayed weilin's repellent all over and our tent was terribly choking but at least the risk of insects was greatly reduced. and i had to sleep with a rock poking through my right shoulder but i still slept quite well cos im a heavy sleeper. hees.

noww. the third day. todays activities we did them together with our buddy watch raleigh. all the ppl there were frm 305 and its pretty good got xiner and jo. we had a nice breakfast and did high elements agn. this time the tripod. its mostly abt balancing. u hv to walk thru a rope with 2 parallel ropes on the side as support and the nex part was walking thru a rope wif only a dangling rope as support. the third part was walking on a log without any support. i was a bit nervous but did it quite well bahz. since im a libra and have a gd sense of balancing! hahas. then we had lunch and trekked back to camp 2 after dat. there we repacked our bags and i shared a bag with meixuan. and when we carried the kayaks to the sea for kayaking, it marked perhaps the dirtiest day of my life. our feets sank down into the mud to abt the height of ur ankles. and once u stick ur feet in, its hard to pull them out. and when i tried to pluck out my foot frm the mud when carrying the kayak, my foot din cum out no matter how i tried. which meant i lost my balance and fell down, plunging into the mud and while holding on to sandy as support, so dragging her down into the mud with me. heehee. and the worst part is that we dont get to bathe tonight so.....u can simply imagine how we stink. and we even wore our swimwear underneath our clothes to sleep. so we kayaked to this deserted place called manchor where we pitched tents on the granite floor. it was such a blessed place compared to the other campsites cos the ground was flat and there were not really any insects. we cooked rice sardine baked beans and curry for dinner and i slept on my lifevest which made quite a gd pillow. then we had night duty whereby each tent took turns to watch over the kayaks. during our duty we lay down to look at the stars and i ended up dozing off. hahax.

whee fourth dayy. today was the worst day of all. we woke up early in the morn and went kayaking at 8am with buddy watch raleigh. then we kayaked and kayaked for 8 hrs till 4pm without stopping. it was such a tiring job. the water was hard to paddle and direction hard to steer. the sun was esp scorching. everyone had sunburns and now im black frm face to arms. thk god i wore track pants. though it was really stuffy but at least my leg were prevented frm sunburns. haiz so i kayaked with weilin and hor i invented my own ingenius way of kayaking by using one underhand to paddle. it much more convenient and requires lesser energy and much faster! thus this intelligent idea shuld be spread widely and be promoted to others for the good of the world. but however i was apparantly the only one hu thot so. raleigh's instructor sam caught me dunno how many times paddling underhand and called me "ewe the underhand girl". so i told weilin to help me keep a lookout for sam and when we paddle past her i will switch back to overhand paddling. hahas and when one time weilin and i were stuck inthe branches and there were cobwebs and spiders on the tree branch when we broke our way thru so i ducked and screamed our way out. then sam said must be bcos i was paddling underhand when she wasnt looking thats y we ended up stuck. which was quite true cos i was paddling underhand but that din cause us to be stuck! : hehe well anw the whole 8 hr kayaking was terrible and all of us were steaming. we had to use the dirty murky seawater filled with plants and insects as our freshwater for cooling down our arms legs head etc. it was simply disgusting. ewww...and it was even harder to paddle when we reached the sea cos we had to go agnst the currents. towards the end we were so tired and i closed my eyes while kayaking and suddenly weilin told me that my left paddle shifted and i was only scooping water frm the sea. it was such a relief to reach the shore at last and we all felt a great sense of achievement. budden we still had to carry the heavy kayaks to wash and pitch our tents in the forest. after that finally can bathe~~~ahhh...i bathed for a pretty long time and im sure i spent abt 5 to 10 mins in the toilet struggling with hl's black track pants. the hole for the feet to pass thru was so small and i had to squeeze and squeeze to get my foot and ankle thru. when i was finally done i made an amazing discovery which was that the string was entangled ard my leg so i had to take it out and rewear agn all thks to hl. well we had quite a gd dinner after that and went off to sleep.

fifth--the last day~!! din do any activities except for washing up and packing lorhz...by today everyone's shoes were black or brown liaoz and a girl's shoes were so tattered that the soles fell out and her toes poked thru. and im totally chaoda with mosquito and sandflies bites. the repellent din really work since it has long since expired and turned all watery into a suspension. my sunblock was a only bit better--it was creamy watery. so my face was badly bitten esp my ears and they gained the title of lobster ears. and we din do jetty jump and im quite disappointed since i was quite looking forward to it. but nvm...we got our certs and fotos today. at 1 pm it was time to go home sweet home~~and stupid 961 refused to come and weilin and i waited for the bus and weilin was so impatient and kept telling me to look for the bus in case we missed it but i was deeply engrossed in examining the extent of damage done to my skin by the process of denaturing. but weilin kept complaining that i shuld stop playing with my skin. humph...professionals shuls have the right to examine their skin wad. hahas.

thats abt it.
the end.
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